(Closed) DIY Centerpieces – Feedback requested!

I’m looking for some feedback please. 🙂 I was feeling unsure of my DIY centerpieces, so I tried a mockup table setting at home. My table is 52″ and the reception tables will be a little bigger at 60″. The place settings will have 1-2 goblets for water and/or tea. (The guests will get other beverages at the open bar). There will silverwear on the table, and napkins. All the linens are white. I’m pretty sure my fiancee think’s I’m crazy that I folded up hand towels to be mock up nakins! There won’t be formal dinner plates on the table.

So I’m looking for feedback overall table decor and the centerpeices

The lanterns will have a base of sand inside of them. The candle will have the blue ribbon and will have a string of pearls on the edges of the ribbon around the candle. Then the lanterns will be surrounded by the blue and white glass pebbles and some white finger starfish.

Are these okay? Is there something I could do to make it look a little better? My fear is that they are just lame, but I’m not sure whatelse to do.

The only part I am on the fence about are the glass pebbles scattered. I love your table number, the lanterns, and the starfish but think the pebbles and colored ribbon on the candle and pebbles kind of take away from the design.

Maybe you could put the pebbles and a starfish or two in the lantern to see how it would look and leave the candles plain? Is it in your budget to add a bud vase or two to each table with a simple bloom? I think flowers go a long way.

I really like the pebbles scattered and think it is pretty, but I do see what they are saying about the drinks possible spilling? However, maybe if you put them enough in the center it would definitely be out of the way of the drinks! I think you cant go wrong and it looks fantastic!

I tried out a few of the suggestions.. The flowers in the picture are fake becuase that is what I had on hand at home, but they would be replaced with fresh lily’s if I went this direction. The first one shows starfish inside the lantern.. I’ll post two other options next.